1948 Republican National Convention

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The 1948 Republican National Convention was held at the Municipal Auditorium, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from June 21 to June 25, 1948.

New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey had paved the way to win the Republican presidential nomination in the primaries where he had beaten Minnesota Governor Harold E. Stassen and the victorious World War II General Douglas MacArthur. In Philadelphia he was nominated on the third ballot over the opposition from die-hard conservative Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft, from the future "minister of peace" Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota, Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg and California Governor Earl Warren. In all Republican conventions after 1948, the nominee was selected on the first ballot. Warren was nominated for Vice President. Together they went on to narrowly lose the general election to Democrats Harry S. Truman and Alben W. Barkley.

[edit] The Platform

• Reduction of the public debt
• Federal aid to states for slum clearance and low-cost housing
• Extension of Social Security benefits
• A federal anti-lynching law
• Federal civil rights legislation
• Abolition of the poll tax
• A crackdown on domestic Communism
• Recognition of the state of Israel
• International arms control "on basis of reliable disciplines against bad faith".

[edit] Candidates before the Convention

Businessman Riley A. Bender of Illinois	Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York	Former Senator Herbert E. Hitchcock of South Dakota	General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of Arkansas
Speaker of the House Joseph William Martin, Jr. of Massachusetts	Former Governor Edward Martin of Pennsylvania	Senator Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts	Former Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota
President pro tempore of the Senate Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan	Governor Earl Warren of California	Senator Robert Taft of Ohio

[edit] The Balloting

[edit] See also

• 1948 Democratic National Convention
• United States presidential election, 1948